Moving ____
Movement of Americans toward new lands in the western United States.
What is Westward Expansion?
The year the Missouri Compromise was passed.
What is 1820?
Many Native Americans were forced to move to these areas of land.
What are reservations?
California became known as the “_______ basket of America.”
What is the fruit basket?
Large land estates used for raising cattle in the Southwest.
What are ranchos?
People who moved west to start farms and new communities.
What are settlers?
Missouri entered the Union as this type of state.
What is a slave state?
The policy that forced Native Americans off their land so settlers could move west.
What is Indian Removal (Act) ?
A building style common in the Southwest made with mud bricks.
What is adobe architecture?
Mexican cowboys who influenced American cowboy culture.
Who are vaqueros?
These people explored new territories and created maps that helped settlers travel west.
Who are explorers?
Maine entered the Union as this type of state.
What is a free state?
Native Americans often lost this because of westward expansion.
What is land, culture, or traditional ways of life?
Mexican culture influenced western food, architecture, and this system of rules.
What is law?
Workers who herded cattle and worked on ranches.
Who are cowboys?
Two explorers sent by the United States to explore the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The line created by the Missouri Compromise that divided slave and free territories.
What is the 36°30′ line?
This famous forced march removed many Cherokee people from their homes.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Two foods influenced by Mexican culture in the West.
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Two important skills cowboys learned from vaqueros.
Roping, riding, cattle herding, branding.
Why did settlers move west?
What is land, gold, farming opportunities, or new jobs?
The main goal of the Missouri Compromise.
What is keeping balance between free and slave states?
One major difference between settlers and Native Americans during expansion.
Settlers gained land and opportunity, while Native Americans often lost land and were displaced.
Why California became such an important agricultural region.
Fertile soil, good climate, and farming traditions.
Why ranching became important in the West.
Because the land was good for raising cattle and supplying beef.